Abstract: The garment includes a panty portion .[.formed of fashioned gussets.]. and a pair of legs integrally knit with the panty portion. The legs may be short to provide a panty, panty girdle and the like or they may be long and provided with foot portions to form tights, leotards, panty hose and the like. .[.Fashioned front.]. .Iadd.Front .Iaddend.and rear .[.gussets.]. .Iadd.portions .Iaddend.of the panty portion are provided with knit selvage edges to form a waist opening in the garment during the knitting operation and to eliminate the need for slitting the garment in a subsequent operation to form the waist opening. Elastic yarns may be incorporated in the portion of the garment surrounding the waist opening to provide an integrally knit elastic band around the waist opening.

Abstract: A method is provided for adding reactive metals to a molten metal bath by forming said reactive metal into an elongated member, suspending said member generally lengthwise vertically of a mold and pouring metal to be treated into said mold, to make said formed member an integral part of the molten metal as it rises in the mold and is cooled.

Abstract: A luggage transport structure for use with a suitcase having wheels mounted thereon for supporting said suitcase. A channel is formed on the outer periphery of the suitcase and a housing positioned on the interior of the suitcase adjacent a portion of the channel. A handle is positioned in the housing which is retractable and extendable out of the housing. When the handle is extended from the suitcase it can be used to roll the suitcase along a floor. In its retracted position the handle is positioned within the channel and is flush with the outer dimensions of the suitcase.

Abstract: A holder for forming a plurality of strands of wire into a bundle for assembling a cable harness. The holder includes a frame having relatively movable arms .[.of which the ends are in spaced relationship.]. .Iadd.terminating in opposing separate ends.Iaddend.. An elastic band is fastened on the frame to .[.yieldably hold the ends spaced and.]. provide a cradle for the wires .Iadd.and to coact with the ends to releasably retain the strands..Iaddend. .Iadd.

Abstract: Zinc alloys having improved physical properties consist essentially of 10 to 30 percent by weight of aluminum, 0.3 to 10 percent by weight of copper, 0.01 to 0.1 percent by weight of magnesium, 0.005 to 0.3 percent by weight of at least one of the metals calcium, .[.lithium.]. and sodium, and the balance zinc.

Abstract: Metal is deposited on a substrate containing neutral radicals, radical cations or neutral molecules (the latter being derived from a dication normally stable in aqueous media), by contacting the substrate with an electroless plating solution, optionally after sensitization with a salt of a platinum group metal silver or gold. The use of the process for data recording, particularly for the production of magnetic information carriers e.g. tapes or discs, metallizing plastic foam and for producing printed circuits is described.

Abstract: This invention is directed to improved bubble-free, high barrier film materials prepared from substantially plasticizer-free vinylidene chloride polymer compositions containing small amounts of magnesium oxide; and to a process for the preparation of such improved films.

Abstract: The protective baseball batting garment is an article used by batters only while at bat in the playing of the game of baseball as done in the United States and perhaps some foreign countries. The protective jacket is adapted to protect the upper portion of the human torso and arms where severe injury to the batter is most prevalent caused by a baseball thrown by the pitcher of the opposing team in the field to a batter at home plate in the batters box during the playing of the game of baseball. Hard pads or padded sections are sewn into or on the exterior of a jacket to protect the forearm, elbow and outer bicep of arm facing the opposing pitcher, opposed side padded sections, shoulder and shoulder blades and back section, all of which are provided with inner more resilient materials to absorb the shock of the thrown baseball by opposing pitcher to a batter in the batters box who is wearing the jacket so padded.

Abstract: A plurality of interlocking reinforced barrel shaped plastic torso fitting embers has a transparent vented plastic head piece threadedly connected thereto. The torso members are suspended and attached to the wearer by adjustable strapping. Compliant material is used intermediate the shock resisting members and the wearer to help position the armor on the wearer and to attenuate the transmission of blast shock waves from the armor to the wearer. The openings in the armor, to accommodate the wearer's appendages, are hermetically sealed by a lining made of rubber material. Air for breathing is brought into the helmet and exhausted therefrom by intake and exhaust check-valves which are actuated by the wearer's normal breathing.

Abstract: A defensive covering for the head comprising a plurality of arc-shaped rigid straps made of light metals or synthetic resin, and a pivot or pivots axially connecting an end or ends of the straps so that the straps are collapsible and expansible about the pivot(s). A bowl shaped defensive covering for the head is, thereby, formed by expansivelly pivoting the straps about the pivot(s).

Abstract: A diver's helmet is held to his head by means of a movable pad which engages the back of the neck, preferably near the base of the skull. The pad is preferably manually movable by means of any suitable mechanism to engage the diver's neck.

Abstract: A tubular compression sheath formed of a resilient yarn or fabric is structured to comprise a band defining an upper open end and an oppositely disposed enclosed end with an intermediate portion extending therebetween. The intermediate portion is formed in two sections, with the lower of said two intermediate sections having a knitted pattern with a higher yarn density than the upper intermediate section. The diameter of the sheath progressively decreases from the upper open end toward the lower enclosed end and the intermediate section is preferably formed from yarn having a thickness within a range between about 30 to 44 dtex. The preferred material from which the intermediate section is formed is Nylon 66 HE crimped. The sheath provides a desired radial compression about the limb upon which it is worn without producing undesired axial frictional forces across the area of the intermediate section.

Abstract: A surgically implantable prosthetic joint replacement device formed preferably of ceramic and having mating concave and convex condylar surfaces and intersecting lands for stopping motion at extended and pairs of contracted positions of the joint. The device consists of male and female portions for implantation in medullary canals of metacarpals and/or phalanges and having grooves along the dorsal surfaces for reception of extensor tendons. Engagement of the parts permits rotation and hyperextension.

Abstract: Artificial intraocular lenses comprise an optical zone portion adapted to be implanted in the posterior chamber of an eye, posts extending from said optical zone portion through the iris and into the anterior chamber thereof, and retaining means adapted to be secured to the ends of the posts, whereby said posts and retaining means hold and position the artificial intraocular lenses within the eye. In some embodiments, the posts and retaining means are configured for an interengaging press fit. In another embodiment the posts are attached to the retaining means and are adapted to be secured to the optical zone or lens portion positioned in the posterior chamber.

Abstract: A mixing faucet for sanitary installations comprising a sealed housing defining a mixing chamber and a water outlet, a mixing bushing having hot and cold outlet openings disposed radially in axial direction adjacent the mixing chamber and being mounted in the sealed housing, and a multistage pressure balanced control piston being displaceable within the mixing bushing and acting axially from an outside so as to open and close the water outlet. Two segment slides are positioned each between adjacent of three pistons of the control piston, the segments slides alternately opening and closing the outlet openings for the hot and cold water in the mixing busing, the hot and cold outlet openings discharging into the mixing chamber.

Abstract: An articulated bed is disclosed comprising a main frame, an auxiliary frame, and means for adjusting the height of the auxiliary frame relative to the height of the main frame. An auxiliary mattress is supported by the auxiliary frame and a main mattress is supported by the main frame circumferentially about at least a portion of the auxiliary mattress.

Abstract: A holder for a si sharpening file includes a U-shaped elongated body, one leg of the U being longer than the other, the longer leg being provided with means for holding a flat file on its inwardly facing surface. The shorter leg acts as a guide bar or rib which is spaced from the file, the end of the shorter leg acting as a guide surface to be placed against the edge of the ski while filing the bottom or contact surface thereof. A handle is disposed on the outside surface of the body, the body also including an extension beyond the file retaining leg to partially support the handle. In a further embodiment a rim surrounds the file which is retained by sprins. A handle projects laterally from the outer surface of the longer leg and holds a scraper.

Abstract: A shoe last fitted with five toe projections of adjustable length for forming the interior of a shoe to fit comfortably about the wearer's toes. The last and attached shoe is attachable to a vibrator unit for deforming the interior of the attached shoe, to fit about the toe projections.

Abstract: A mop frame assembly having an improved removable mop frame which firmly holds a mop pad in place yet permits easy removal. The mop frame is formed of a rigid base member having a pair of opposed S-shaped elongate stiff but flexible engaging members which mechanically firmly but removably engage a portion of a body member. The body member is attached to a mop handle holder, preferably by means of a positionable universal joint, while the base member is permanently fastened to a mop pad.

Abstract: A dust mop provided with a mop head frame which has means for attachment of the frame to a mop handle. A frame cover is mounted around about the mop head frame for encasing the same. A mop head is provided which includes a mop element on the lower side thereof and a fiber cloth backing material on the upper side thereof. A releasable hook fastening means is carried on the bottom side of the frame cover for releasably attaching the frame cover to the mop head.

Abstract: Roll-over car washing equipment is disclosed of the type having an inverted U-shaped frame adapted to travel over a car washing station and having air nozzles for directing drying air against the upwardly presented surfaces and also against the sides of the car in the washing station, the nozzles being supplied with air by one or more blowers mounted on the frame, with controllable means for alternatively delivering the air to the side nozzles and the top nozzle. The top nozzle is provided with mounting linkage providing for maximizing vertical movement of the nozzle while minimizing the dimension of the equipment lengthwise of the washing station.

Abstract: A castor has a domed wheel rotatably mounted about an inclined axis on a body itself pivotally mounted on or about a vertical mounting spindle. The wheel axis is offset laterally of the spindle axis and the wheel has a rim with a convex part-spherical ground-engaging surface. The body is moulded with an integral bearing boss and the wheel is moulded with an integral bearing boss, the bosses engaging one within the other to provide a bearing for the wheel. The spindle is located in a bore in the body and engages in a peripheral groove in the boss to locate the wheel axially with respect to the body. A sleeve-like portion of the body moulding concentric with and surrounding the boss provides an outer female bearing surface for the wheel boss.

Abstract: Traverse rod with decorative modular covering. There is provided a traverse rod having a basic rod structure of any of many conventional forms, together with a modular decorative facing, which latter is preferably of molded plastic material, the composite forming as a new product a traverse rod having the appearance of a carved wooden rod at a substantially less expense than that normal for such rods and further having the convenience, adaptibility and reliability of presently known metal rods. While the invention can be used with cut-to-measure traverse rods, it is primarily intended for and finds its greater utility with adjustable traverse rods. The facing material is formed in modular sections which are interlocked together end-to-end and fixed rigidly to the basic traverse rod for support thereon and rigidifying thereof. The operating features and support means are all those of the basic traverse rod.

Abstract: To prevent the wear of, and noise production by, the opposed or abutting ends of knuckles on a pair of hinge leaves, a pair of rings of wear resisting material are interposed between the opposed ends of each two adjacent knuckles, with a pintle passing through the knuckles and rings. The rings have pairs of fingers gripping the opposed marginal edges of the leaves, respectively, so that the paired rings rotate relative to each other with the swinging movement of the leaves. Each ring with its pair of fingers is exactly flat and is therefore manufacturable by punching from sheet metal, plastic or the like.

Abstract: This disclosure relates to a concealed hinge for furniture doors and incls at least three hinge elements, a first element being carried by the frame, a second element being mounted at one end for sliding movement relative to the first element and being pivotally connected at an opposite end to a door, the third element being pivoted to the first element and to the second element, and latch means pivotally connected to the third element by the pivot connection between the second and third elements. The latch means is preferably spring biased toward its latched position and is preferably U-shaped as viewed in cross-section. A fourth hinge element is pivotally connected between the door and the third hinge element and the latch means latches upon the pivot between the door and fourth hinge element.

Abstract: A conveyor system for slaughtering animals comprising a pair of parallel rails disposed to be higher than the leg length of the animal to be slaughtered and located between parallel stationary side walls used to prevent the animal from rolling sideways. On each of the rails flexible conveyor belts are provided. In operation, the animal is placed upright on the pair of rails with its legs straddling the rails. The belts move the animal in the upright position to a slaughtering station.

Abstract: A yieldable knife meat tenderizing apparatus that includes a plurality of force yieldable elongated knives with each knife having a sharp meat penetrating and meat severing end and force yieldable friction members holding the knives in meat penetrating position but with the knives being independently slidably yieldable relative to the friction members upon striking an obstruction such as a bone and meat retainers through which the blades extend and which engage the meat when the knives are in meat penetrating position to hold the meat against substantial movement with the knives upon withdrawal of the knives from the meat and a tiltable lacking device for tilting and locking onto a guide member when the retainer is in engagement with the meat.

Abstract: A filling spout supplies a food slurry under pressure to one portion of a rotating drum having molding cavities through its periphery to fill the cavities. An ejector inside the drum applies hot fluid under pressure to the inner ends of the pellets in the cavities to eject them from the drum. The drum is mounted on a bearing rotatable on and slidable along a hollow arbor serving as a conduit for the hot fluid, and the drum is slidable between an operating position adjacent the spout and the ejector, and a cleaning position completely removed from the spout and the ejector.

Abstract: A mechanized shackling arrangement comprising a pivoting elongated arm carried on an overhead rail, a pivoting snare attached to the lower end of the arm with a resilient device holding the snare normally parallel with the arm and a locating plate attached to the arm and disposed at a distance therefrom parallel to the arm and in back of the snare. The arm is moved at an angle to catch the hind leg of the slain animal with the hoof touching the locating plate. The arm is moved at the angle until the hock is caught by the snare, and the hind leg and carcass are lifted from the holder and hoisted up and moved.

Abstract: A roller gin is most effectively used for processing fine-stapled cottons.The roller gin comprises a ginning roller, a sectional knife urged against the surface thereof and actuated by a vibrator so that the sections of the knife are oscillating in anti-phase, and a stripping organ also made sectional and provided with vanes, the vanes of the changeable sections being turned through an angle sufficient for each vane to cooperate with an appropriate section of the knife and the stripping organ being rigidly coupled to the vibrator through a gearing ratio multiple of the number of the vanes in each section.Such a roller gin increases the efficiency of ginning, enhances the quality thereof and makes it possible to handle any class of cotton irrespective of the degree of attachment of the fibers to the seeds.

Abstract: A freely-rotatable fluted roll compressively engages the sliver projecting upwardly from a sliver can as such can is doffed from a textile sliver coiling apparatus. The roll exerts compressive and snubbing forces upon the sliver strand extending between the sliver can and the coiler head of the apparatus, causing separation of such strand during and in response to the can changing movement of the can away from the coiler head. Also disclosed are a preferred design of, and a preferred mounting arrangement for a sliver-separating roll usable for the foregoing purpose.

Abstract: A releasable cable tie for forming a plurality of elongate objects such as wires into a bundle. The tie includes an elongate strap and a locking head which has strap entry and exit faces, a strap-receiving aperture extending between the faces and having a predetermined strap pass path therethrough, and a locking pawl extending into the aperture and toward the strap exit face for holding the strap. The pawl is movable between a release position wherein it is adjacent the strap exit face and disposed outside the strap pass path and an engagement position wherein the pawl is disposed adjacent the strap entry face and securely holds the strap. The cable tie further includes a fulcrum extending toward the strap exit face and a release arm extending from the pawl comprising a generally rigid lever and a generally flexible hinge joining the lever to the pawl.

Abstract: A flexible cable is described for coupling portable objects such as bicycles to a support which cable includes a metal reinforcement member interposed and sandwiched between an inner body of heat setting polymeric material and a cover of heat setting resilient polymeric material which intimately engages the reinforcement member. The ends of the cable are provided with means for receiving a detachable locking means.

Abstract: A closure or bushing member for openings in electrical boxes, conduit ends and the like is formed as an integral unit of a thermoplastic synthetic organic polymeric resin and includes a disc or annular shaped head and a coaxial hollow cylindrical shank of lesser diameter. Extending from opposite sides of the distal end of the shank are a pair of opposite radially projecting arms, which terminate in wing members of greater width than the radial arms and which have conically surfaced outer faces flaring rearwardly outwardly. A peripheral recess is formed in the rear outer face of each wing to provide a rearwardly facing shoulder for resiliently engaging the inside border of the opening to which the closure member is applied to retain the closure member therein.

Abstract: A slider for a sliding clasp fastener is assembled essentially with a slider body, a pull tab, a cap-like yoke and/or means of locking the slider. The yoke has its lower longitudinal edges fitted into grooves or indents formed in the slider body, and inter-fitting portions are fused together as by an ultrasonic processing into an integral joint.

Abstract: Traversing device for winding a thread bunch on a warp beam having respective beam discs at the ends thereof includes comb means extending along the entire length of the warp beam that is to be wound by the thread bunch, the comb means includes a relatively long middle comb and two relatively short end combs located, respectively, at opposite ends of the middle comb, the end combs having a multiplicity of comb needles and being pivotable relative to the middle comb so as to execute a traversing stroke reducing in direction toward the respective beam disc.

Abstract: A knitted fabric possessing a porosity of at most 80% and a surface contour of at most 6, therefore having a woven fabriclike appearance and hand, is manufactured by uniformly pressing a primary knitted fabric containing at least 50% by weight of thermoplastic synthetic fiber with a presser face under 5 to 35 kg/cm.sup.2 pressure at a temperature lower than the melting point of the synthetic fiber but not lower than 90.degree. C so as to compress and heat-set the primary fabric in a thickness of 95 to 55% based on that of the starting primary fabric.

Abstract: A method of separating apertured shadow mask flats after annealing in which a stack of thin flats is passed through a roller leveler, with the rollers set apart by a dimension slightly less than the thickness of the stack.

Abstract: An organic film capacitor element comprising a dielectric polyvinylidene fluoride film, elongated and subsequently heat treated, and an electrode foil and a method for preparing same are disclosed.

Abstract: Apparatus is disclosed for forming a disconnect terminal from a supply band having a continuous first portion and a plurality of second portions spaced therealong and integrally connected to the first portion. The apparatus comprises first means for shearing the continuous first portion of the supply band at a location intermediate two adjacent second portions thereof to form a predetermined length of said supply band into a predetermined shape having a terminal portion and an integrally connected connector portion. Second means are provided for bending the length into a generally U-shaped configuration. A die is provided which has first and second receptacles therein. The first receptacle has a first predetermined configuration for the reception of at least one wire therein, and the second receptacle has a second predetermined configuration for forming the terminal portion of the predetermined length of the supply band into a preselected terminal configuration.

Abstract: A spindle drive for an eight spindle lathe comprising a single input gear disposed at the center of the circle of the eight spindles, two gears meshing with the single input gear, each of these two gears engaging with pairs of further gears which are arranged to drive the work spindles.

Abstract: A flute piece consisting of a piece of tungsten carbide twisted or formed such that the flute piece has at least two helical cutting edges and an axis through which the tungsten carbide material extends. The flute piece is intended for an engineers' tool for working ferrous or non-ferrous metal, plastics or wood, such as a twist drill or a milling or boring cutter for a machine tool. A shank member has an extension web on one end thereof which is provided with a helical slot for reception of the flute piece.

Abstract: A ring assembly includes two side-by-side flat ring members of uniform rectangular cross-section each being split, with the confronting split ends having radially overlapping fingers to define a circumferentially sealing joint. The ring members are dimensioned to be received in a common piston groove with the ring members being non-rotatably coupled so that the joint of one member will always be rotationally spaced from the joint of the other to define an axial seal for the ring assembly. A non-rotational coupling is provided by an integral tab formed in one member and projecting transversely therefrom and received in a mating transverse recess in the other member, with the recess having a larger dimension than the tab to permit sliding movement of the ring members relative to each other within the groove. Two forms of tabs include a partially sheared and bent tab and a partially displaced shear plug.

Abstract: A method is disclosed of forming valve bodies of the spool valve type wherein sharp edges around the port openings in the interior chamber of the valve are eliminated. This is accomplished by blowing holes through the chamber wall to form the ports within the interior chamber. A tool is first used to bore partially through the valve body to leave a very thin annular portion which is readily parted when high pressure is applied to the interior chamber of the valve.

Abstract: A heater head assembly of the type useful in a hot gas engine is disclosed. The assembly has a plurality of tubes or passages providing a communicating connection for the gas between high temperature working chambers and regenerators. In one embodiment, manifold extensions are provided for each of the working chambers and regenerators and between which banks of heater tubes extend. Each of said manifolds contain at least one blind flow turn-around or reverter structure whereby hot gases traversing between a working chamber and a regenerator must travel the spacing therebetween a minimum of three times. Each of said tube banks are formed by uniting two plys of sheet metal along spaced pairs of parallel lines of brazing, the zone within each pair of brazing lines being expanded to define gas passages for said tube bank and the zone between pairs of brazing lines being perforated to admit cross-flow of a surrounding heating medium.

Abstract: Apparatus for replacing a damaged core having web material wound thereabout comprises an elongate fixture having longitudinally aligned separably stackable sections, one fixture section having configuration in part facilitating insertion of the fixture within the damaged core and in other part displacing the damaged core outwardly of the wound web material on longitudinal fixture movement and the other fixture section having configuration in part supporting a replacement core thereon and in other part inserting the replacement core within the wound web material.

Abstract: An apparatus for dismantling portable wooden platforms or pallets, that have become damaged during use, by removing the top and bottom deckboards from a plurality of stringers or runners. The deckboards are removed by moving the stringers between closely spaced cooperating ram members to effect the stripping of the deckboards from said stringers. The deckboards and stringers, that are salvageable, are then assembled as reconditioned platforms or pallets.

Abstract: A method is provided for making a light activated semiconductor controlled rectifier in a semiconductor body having opposed first and second major surfaces. Impurities are sequentially provided in the major surfaces to form four regions of alternate type conductivity disposed alternatively through the body between the major surfaces, with a PN junction between each region. An etchant solution is prepared preferably substantially equal amounts of chromium trioxide and water, and adding to said first solution just prior to use a given, preferably about 50% hydrofluoric acid solution in predetermined amounts preferably of substantially one part for each two parts of the first solution.

Abstract: An improved method of constructing a semiconductor device of the encapsulated type wherein a stack of members including a semiconductor element is encapsulated along with spring means ensuring compressive contact to the element contact areas. Hitherto up to five spring washers were needed to keep total spring deflection to within a value giving a desired compressive force, due to accumulated thickness tolerances of the stack members. In the present invention, a plastically deformable member is included in the stack initially along with a thickness gauge member such that bringing together the encapsulation housing parts round the stack flattens a single included spring washer and deforms the deformable member by a certain extent. This certain extent is such that when the stack is re-assembled without the thickness gauge, the plastically deformable member is now of a thickness to cause the spring to deform by an amount giving a desired compression force in the finished stack.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for processing strip material including feeding a supply of unprocessed strip material from a coil thereof, passing the strip material through bending means for forming the strip material about small diameter bending angles to remove non-resilient materials from the surface thereof, stripping the sides and edges of the material by applying reversely rotating steel brushes to the sides thereof, scraping the sides and edges of the strip material by the use of abrasion surfaces such as sandpaper and the like which may be rotated in the opposite direction to the movement of the strip material through the processing equipment, apparatus for straightening the strip material by stretching and pulling it while extended about a group of rollers, and a winding station for pulling the strip material through the processing system and for rolling the processed strip material onto insulated conductor coils.